December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Green Card Post
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: svb3(a)namaste.cc.columbia.edu (Sarah Victoria Birnbaum) Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld,alt.tv.melrose-place,alt.tv.bh90210 Subject: Mr. Green Card Gets Nailed!! Date: Wed Apr 20 00:31:13 EDT 1994 Organization: Columbia University Lines: 8 Thought you might all like to know that that fool who posted the Green Card Lottery thing to every known newsgroup has been busted for disobeying netiquette. His server in, I think, Texas, has cancelled his account! Check out the New York Times Business section of today, 4/19/94, for a terrific article. It's great to see he got his just deserts. Unfortunately, he seems perfectly happy and says as soon as he gets a new account, he'll start advertising again! What can we do? <- I got a kick out of this, especially considering the distribution.

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WWW page on crypto export issues
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

EFF Board member and Cygnus Support co-founder John Gilmore has set up a World Wide Web page on cryptography export issues, including information on how to apply for export clearance, exchages with Commerce Dept. on export licensing, legal documents on networking issues in relation to export of technology and crypto, and more. The URL is: http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/export.html -- Stanton McCandlish * mech(a)eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994

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Re: FYI (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

That message was originally posted as an April Fools Joke. How it ended up getting posted on Gay-Net by someone without a clue is beyond me...

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Re: cryptophone ideas
by pcw＠access.digex.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>They are capable of doing 2 data moves, a 16x16 multiply, a 40 bit >>accumulate and a prefech of the next instruction all in 100ns. > >This is where a DSP really shines, since it's the fundamental >operation in digital filtering; indeed it wouldn't be a DSP if it >couldn't do a multiply/accumulate in a single clock cycle. > >But I wouldn't be too surprised if general purpose CPUs eventually get >the same capability. And once they are, the distinction between a >"DSP" and a "general purpose" CPU will pretty much vanish. DSPs are >notoriously harder to program than general purpose CPUs, and being >lower volume items they won't be able to compete in price or clock >speed with general purpose CPUs made in the millions. > >Phil How hard is it to reprogram the DSP that comes with a cellular phone right now? I've never opened one up. Can you just unsolder a rom, read it, insert your own code for DH key exchange, add some encryption, burn a new ROM and have a secure phone?

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Sorry, unicorn...
by Phil G. Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey, unicorn, I was *joking*. I use that signoff sometimes while joking. I dislike smileys. I recall reading that Ames used rather conventional mail drops to deliver his stuff. He was compromised and working for the Soviets way before internet access was nearly as available as today. Get a clue yourself. pgf

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Re: BlackNet here now?
by Phil G. Fraering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Funny how the old "classical" hackers/crackers/etc. don't seem to be as enthusiastic about technology for creating privacy as they were supposedly in the old days about technology for violating security. I wonder if these guys are the Fed's great untapped resource for bugging the rest of us. Phil

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Re: Sorry, unicorn...
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I recall reading that Ames used rather conventional mail drops to deliver his stuff. He was compromised and working for the Soviets way before internet access was nearly as available as today. Get a clue yourself. <- So your saying he never used BlackNet? :) -uni- (Dark)

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Re: Black Net
by fhalper＠pilot.njin.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In reply to: Sandy, I think Frederick is getting upset because BlackNet refuses to accept his application. But what can you expect... most high school kids just don't have information worth money or BN Credits. Laugh, Laugh. You had me going for a little. I guess it is the equivalent of hazing(less painful). Reuben Halper Montclair High -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3 mQCPAi16KosAAAEEAMUwRni4a9+GbuAhHDLcBWK60hCJUYxhr2hYokpELAhx0ejp 2fq61Tu9Hjn051CN8Xy5nu6sv2ODfG/t59l4DJSb5pirQaII3zaX0rMX0ydwGDoW YakL4ow1lNY+d/k14KpIuUW404+fNuNhIGSkdVLQIfbOgh0preK7/P44AKvdABEB AAG0JlJldWJlbiBIYWxwZXIgPGZoYWxwZXJAcGlsb3Qubmppbi5uZXQ+iQCVAgUQ Lam+x9xF3PzIgw7tAQHPogP/VmoF5AHJNBFlpxl1tvHAzrMLE8nkpengs94Y8zmF 1r5+hk0TaYeEEUzYf1QNfflya5md3WKeXnI3WhO2SRpdH953AD/tNmxw2LLEegat 5sI1XNPuNqxeompiHFRnCz4dI14qjDvRwnPay187/Q5q2F3m0nP8qA6wgl59mDq3 FuCJAJUCBRAteitx4rv8/jgAq90BARTHBACh99OJtGXATm01BUa+u6WHU5CBc2FN F5z29RpTA/JTrgUhn4qeZ19iCIlhe1wi0D3QQH0wN7FrMp6onMw49KFU05/KLDLb JSWdCzjbl/wPEG8z//O6+Pqzj+ZcNM9Rm0b08/QdVoQZMljXkl19Gq2P/D4ceewe WAKePQ2ciFdNbw== =K4ez -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: cryptophone ideas
by jamiel＠sybase.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:38 PM 04/21/94 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >Peter Wayner says: >> How hard is it to reprogram the DSP that comes with a cellular >> phone right now? I've never opened one up. Can you just unsolder >> a rom, read it, insert your own code for DH key exchange, add >> some encryption, burn a new ROM and have a secure phone? > >You would also have to open up the base station for the cell, unsolder >its roms, read them, insert your own code for DH key exchange, add >some encryption, and put it back, and I suspect that the cellular >vendor would get mad at you. > >Perry Aha. here is where you can enlist the hacker community's experience. Various phreaker types have been reprogramming thier cellulars for quite a while- usually to do free calls instead of encrypted calls, but the same ideas apply. I don't know if anyone has done anything with the DSPs, but there are various files floating around with the codes to break into debug-mode and such for a while. Check yer local underground BBS...

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Re: You Will
by fhalper＠pilot.njin.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What is this a bite off of MTV, let's be original. Reuben -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3 mQCPAi16KosAAAEEAMUwRni4a9+GbuAhHDLcBWK60hCJUYxhr2hYokpELAhx0ejp 2fq61Tu9Hjn051CN8Xy5nu6sv2ODfG/t59l4DJSb5pirQaII3zaX0rMX0ydwGDoW YakL4ow1lNY+d/k14KpIuUW404+fNuNhIGSkdVLQIfbOgh0preK7/P44AKvdABEB AAG0JlJldWJlbiBIYWxwZXIgPGZoYWxwZXJAcGlsb3Qubmppbi5uZXQ+iQCVAgUQ Lam+x9xF3PzIgw7tAQHPogP/VmoF5AHJNBFlpxl1tvHAzrMLE8nkpengs94Y8zmF 1r5+hk0TaYeEEUzYf1QNfflya5md3WKeXnI3WhO2SRpdH953AD/tNmxw2LLEegat 5sI1XNPuNqxeompiHFRnCz4dI14qjDvRwnPay187/Q5q2F3m0nP8qA6wgl59mDq3 FuCJAJUCBRAteitx4rv8/jgAq90BARTHBACh99OJtGXATm01BUa+u6WHU5CBc2FN F5z29RpTA/JTrgUhn4qeZ19iCIlhe1wi0D3QQH0wN7FrMp6onMw49KFU05/KLDLb JSWdCzjbl/wPEG8z//O6+Pqzj+ZcNM9Rm0b08/QdVoQZMljXkl19Gq2P/D4ceewe WAKePQ2ciFdNbw== =K4ez -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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